Technology and Teaching & Learning

Event description

Technology now offers an increasing number of intuitive, reliable, "ready for prime time" tools to help faculty excel in advancing the learning of their students. Using technology to help achieve your instructional outcomes can be manageable and rewarding.

This seminar is for all faculty - those using some technology, those exploring the variety of technologies now readily available, or those contemplating how these technologies might help them meet challenges they face daily. The presenter (an award-winning teacher recently featured in the Daily Trojan for his innovative use of Podcasts) will explore myriad ways of maximizing cutting edge technology. The program will include live connections to Russia and New Mexico, as well as demonstration of Prof. McKenna's use of video iPods.

General information

Choosing and Using Technology
For faculty at the University of Oregon, but the concepts can be applied elsewhere. Includes information on planning; using e-mail, mailing lists and newsgroups in the classroom; class websites; and web conferencing.

Mailing lists

H-AHC (Association for History and Computing)
The AHC exists to encourage and maintain interest in the use of computers in all types of historical studies at all levels, in both teaching and research.

Archive of H-CLC (Comparative Literature and Computers)
H-CLC, which ran from Nov. 13, 1993 to Apr. 24, 2002, was a platform for the discussion of projects in progress and methodological issues as well as technical and administrative problems arising from the application of computing to literary criticism.

Organizations

Center for Image Processing in Education
CIPE is "...a not-for-profit organization that promotes computer-aided visualization as a tool for teaching and learning. CIPE conducts workshops and develops instructional materials that use Image Processing and Geographic Information Systems technologies as platforms for teaching about science, mathematics and technology."

New Media Centers
"...a non-profit consortium of higher education institutions and innovative technology companies that... are working to enhance teaching and learning through the use of new media."

Node Learning Technologies Network
The Node was established in 1996 as the Network for Ontario Distance Educators. Our initial objectives were to promote cooperation among distance educators in universities and community colleges in the province of Ontario, Canada and to provide leadership for their exploration of new learning technologies. Soon our work online attracted a much wider audience and in response, we built resources to support an international community of educators and trainers interested in understanding online learning technologies and harnessing their potential. Our website became a base of professional support and communication, with the Node providing independent research, online resources, professional discussion forums, and publications.